I don’t use profound often. This essay delineates many of the things that my intution was hinting at but was unable to provide form for. The idea of Islamisicim spreading like a virus was particularly on point to me. It resonates with the idea that this is a dangerous meme slowly working through society. Terrorism is the plaything of the educated idle, as the profiles of the archetypical terrorist shows.

It is a bitter pill to swallow sometimes: We are the sum of our choices. Every choice you make has consequences. Sometimes, the consequence is that you fail. We need to let more people fail miserably, and stop crushing them with thousands of tiny failures that are swept away.

TWA 800 is the case that can break out the government policy of covering up terrorism into the open. We cannot continue the policy of widespread lying to the public for “its own good” (and this is more pervasive than just the NTSB) if we want to keep any hope of being a free republic.